The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies returns with a fearsome freight of fantastic class offerings!
Tickets & Passes Now Available!
SPRING 2025 CLASSES
MISKATONIC LONDON
Branch Director: Josh Saco
For Miskatonic London’s Spring Semester, admission to individual classes is £9 concession, £12 advance, & £15 door. A full semester pass is £45. All classes take place live at The Horse Hospital, Colonnade, Bloomsbury, London. These are not live streamed.
It’s nearly 2025—we’re officially living in the future! But here at the Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies, we continue to celebrate and explore the bizarre and wonderful!
We’re thrilled to announce our Spring Semester at the Horse Hospital, albeit with a later than usual start date, due to some much needed refurbishment works at the hallowed pits of the equine asylum.
First up, in February, Sarah Cleaver of Zodiac Film Club dives into Vomiting Women in Genre Cinema, exploring how these tropes can silence the true voice. In March, the illustrious Kate Egan examines how Ghostwatch challenged the childhood understanding of reality and its continued impact of memory and spectatorship. .
What’s that you say?! Finally Fulci! You know it! We take a look at Fulci’s religious and political influences and rejections in April, then we hop aboard the Mystery Machine in May and take a trip though the folkloric influences of everyone’s favourite Pesky Kids – and that damn dog too! with Zoinks! And to round out the semester, we turn our gaze to the obsession with true crime and serial killers and how these crime scenes are sensationalised ad nauseum across our modern media landscape.
It’s a diverse lineup of fascinating topics, blending the strange, the spooky, and the scholarly. We can’t wait to see you at the door!
Josh Saco, Director of the Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies
MISKATONIC ONLINE
Branch Director: Claire Donner
Online semester passes are available at the link at the bottom for £40, and individual tickets are £10. Online classes are livestreamed over Zoom. If you have purchased a pass or ticket but cannot attend the livestream, please contact us within 24 hours of the event and we will send you a Vimeo link that will be active for 72 hours.
Here in North American we are hunkered down for the longest, darkest nights of the year, but there is a light at the end of the tunnel: Passes are now available for the Spring 2025 semester of Miskatonic Online classes. The new year’s courses will cover a wide range of topics from true crime to real science, and from gendered violence to the universal pain of grief. We’ll kick things off with Dr. Mathias Clasen, co-director of the Recreational Fear Lab, whose January class explains the mental health benefits of horror. February begins with law scholar Meg Lonergan’s a hauntological look at obscenity laws and the snuff rumors that fuel them, while our March class offers an analysis of the transformative power of practical FX by Sarah Woodstock. April’s talk by Professor Meheli Sen examines the iconography of the well in South Asian horror cinema concerning historical violence against women, and our May guest Tugce Kutlu takes an overdue look at the recent trend of genre films about grief and mourning.
This lineup truly has a little something for everyone, and we can’t wait to delve into these diverse topics with our students. Our continuing education program is guaranteed to make Miskatonians a little wiser and a little weirder with each semester — so grab your passes now, and we’ll see you in class!
Claire Donner, Online Branch Director
For further information, images or interview requests, contact The Miskatonic Institute at miskatonicihs[at]gmail.com.
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